Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Guinea
Guinea: Sweet potatoes — Area harvested was 83,476 ha in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Sweet potatoes — Area harvested in Guinea, 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
The most recent figure for sweet potatoes — area harvested in Guinea is 83,476 ha, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 64 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 13.0% on the previous year and up 210.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweet potatoes — area harvested in Guinea peaked at 83,476 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 9,050 ha, in 1973.
Guinea ranks 17th of 126 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10,000 ha | 10,000 ha | 10,000 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 9,511 ha | 9,050 ha | 10,000 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 14,381 ha | 9,700 ha | 22,480 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 32,536 ha | 23,970 ha | 42,695 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 48,082 ha | 25,000 ha | 56,000 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 49,446 ha | 26,910 ha | 63,491 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 71,895 ha | 61,346 ha | 83,476 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Guinea
- 14 Mozambique 100,470 ha compare
- 16 Cameroon 93,378 ha compare
- 18 Philippines 80,901 ha compare
- 19 Viet Nam 80,807 ha compare
- 20 Burundi 80,064 ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Guinea
- Agriculture share gdp 31.29 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 31.29 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.8% (2016)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 0.4% (2016)
- Rural population 61.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 1.6% (2025)
- Rural population 9.28 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 31.3% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 8.87 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 231,171 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweet potatoes — area harvested in Guinea?
- Sweet potatoes — area harvested in Guinea was 83,476 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 83,476 ha in 2024.
- What is the lowest sweet potatoes — area harvested recorded in Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 9,050 ha in 1973.
- How does Guinea rank for sweet potatoes — area harvested?
- Guinea ranks 17th out of 126 countries with data for 2024.
- Is sweet potatoes — area harvested rising or falling in Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 210.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Guinea data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweet potatoes — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.